Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 22:32 +1300, Rik Tindall wrote:
-Tried to change root password with 'sudo root' - it asked me for apassword
This is the tricky part, for me also. But as the install user has auth/password to activate admin tasks, I ignore it mostly (will worry about security sureties later in the learning curve.) Viz Nick's-Ended up going into runlevel 1 somehow to change the root password
point this morning - it is a non-standard approach to root, & I don't much like it either. But somehow I managed to reset the root password
(from runlevel5), and only need it occasionally in a terminal window. -
Later. Never have I needed to type "sudo" at all - there is a different
logic to root here (off to read Glynn's ref.)
??? - maybe next time try using "root" as the setup account name at installtime?
don't be silly the system does not want two accounts called root, and anyway, how would merely giving someone the name "root" give someone root privileges? Plenty of hispanics call their sons "Jesus" but it doesn't make them the son of god (or krishna, big grin)
if you really want to get into this foolishness instead of using sudo, as the developers intended you to do, why not simply run the passwd command on the root account? I think "sudo passwd root" will do it, but why would you want to when sudo allows you full root privileges?
Can you still do "sudo su -" like you used to be able to?
(:
Steve
